Files and configuration
Browsing, editing and uploading server files straight from the browser.
The Files tab is a full file manager for your server. Everything the game writes — worlds, configs, logs, plugins — lives here, and you can edit most of it without downloading anything.
Editing a config
Click a text file and it opens in an editor with syntax highlighting. .properties, .cfg, .conf, .ini, .txt, .env and eula.txt are all recognised.
Save with the button, not just Ctrl+S out of habit — and remember that games read their configuration once, at startup. Changing server.properties while the server runs does nothing until you restart. This trips up more people than any other single thing.
Uploading
Drag files onto the file list, or use the upload button. For a handful of files this is the quickest way.
For anything larger — a modpack, a world you are migrating, a few hundred megabytes of assets — use SFTP instead. Browser uploads are fine for a few files but slow and fragile for hundreds.
What lives where
Layout depends on the game, but a few conventions hold almost everywhere:
| Path | Usually holds |
|---|---|
/ | The server jar or binary, main config, eula.txt |
/logs | Recent log files — the first place to look after a crash |
/plugins | Bukkit, Spigot and Paper plugins, each with its own config folder |
/mods | Forge, Fabric and NeoForge mods |
/world, /saves | The world itself. Back this up before experimenting |
Before you delete anything
Take a backup first. The file manager deletes permanently — there is no recycle bin, and we cannot undo it for you.
This matters most with worlds. Deleting /world removes everything your players built, and if you have no backup, it is gone. A manual backup takes a few seconds; see Backups.
Common mistakes
Uploading a modpack into the wrong folder. Mods go in /mods, not /plugins. Nothing will load if they are in the wrong place, and the console will usually say nothing at all — the folder is simply empty as far as the game is concerned.
Unzipping on your computer and uploading the folder. Upload the archive and extract it on the server instead. It is faster and avoids losing file permissions on the way.
Editing a config that the pack regenerates. Some modpacks rewrite their configuration on every boot. If your change keeps disappearing, look for the pack's own settings file rather than the generated one.